The world's top social science universities
Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement

2005
rank		 2004
rank		 Institution Country Peer
score		 Citations
per paper
1 1 Harvard University US 100 9.4
2 2 London School of Economics UK 96.3 4.6
3 4 Oxford University UK 88.4 5.3
4 3 University of California, Berkeley US 85.3 6.9
5 6 Stanford University US 80.4 8.5
6 7 Yale University US 77.3 7.2
7 9 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US 73.9 8.9
8 8 Cambridge University UK 73.5 4.6
9 5 University of Chicago US 73 9.9
10 11 Princeton University US 68.9 8
11 12 Melbourne University Australia 63.6 2.8
12 14 Columbia University US 63.3 6.7
13 10 National University of Singapore Singapore 63.1 3.1
14 15 Tokyo University Japan 61.7 -
15 16 Australian National University Australia 60.5 3.3
16 13 Cornell University US 57.1 5.8
17= 28 Monash University Australia 56.9 3.1
17= - Indian Institutes of Management India 56.9 -
19 24 Sydney University Australia 52.2 4.1
20 21 New York University US 50.3 6.1
21 20 Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands 49.2 4.6
22 17 Pennsylvania University US 48.6 7.6
23 19 Beijing University China 48.4 -
24 23 University of New South Wales Australia 48.1 3.7
25 36 Queensland University Australia 47.2 2.7
26 18 University of California, Los Angeles US 47 7.6
27 - Catholic University of Leuven (French) Belgium 46.7 3.5
28 33 Boston University US 46.1 6.2
29= 22 McGill University Canada 44.3 4
29= 30 University of Toronto Canada 44.3 4.2
31 25 Manchester University & Umist UK 43.2 4.3
32 31= Carnegie Mellon University US 43 9.4
33 45 Hong Kong University Hong Kong 41.8 2.5
34 27 University of Michigan US 41.5 7.6
35 73 Munich University Germany 41.3 -
36 31= Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne France 41 -
37 84 RMIT University Australia 40.7 -
38 25= University College London UK 40.1 5.6
39 44 Kyoto University Japan 39.7 -
40 - Northwestern University US 39.5 8.1
41 38= Massachusetts University US 39.4 4.4
42= 92 Vienna University Austria 39.2 -
42= 29 Warwick University UK 39.2 3.6
44= 38= Bonn University Germany 38.1 -
44= - Amsterdam University Netherlands 38.1 3.9
46= 50 Macquarie University Australia 37.4 -
46= 58 Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 37.4 3.4
46= 46= Chulalongkorn University Thailand 37.4 -
49 53= University of British Columbia Canada 37.2 4.8
50 35 Copenhagen University Denmark 37.1 -
51 - Jawaharlal Nehru University India 36.6 -
52 46= Indian Institutes of Technology India 36.5 -
53 56 University of Texas at Austin US 36.2 5.3
54 40 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel 36.1 3.9
55= 53= Stockholm School of Economics Sweden 36 -
55= 37 Duke University US 36 8
55= 96 Pennsylvania State University US 36 5.4
58 57 Hong Kong University Sci & Technol Hong Kong 35.5 4.9
59 41 Edinburgh University UK 34.9 4.4
60 43 Autonomous University of Barcelona Spain 34.8 -
61 98 Lahore University Pakistan 34.1 -
62= 48 Sussex University UK 33.8 5.3
62= 60 Johns Hopkins University US 33.8 6.2
64 66= Heidelberg University Germany 33.7 -
65 - Auckland University New Zealand 33 3.4
66= 70 Fudan University China 32.9 -
66= - Korea University South Korea 32.9 -
68= - La Trobe University Australia 32.6 3.2
68= - Tel Aviv University Israel 32.6 4.2
70= 51 Humboldt University Berlin Germany 32.5 -
70= 53= Bologna University Italy 32.5 -
72 77= Maastricht University Netherlands 32.4 4.7
73= 62= Helsinki University Finland 32.3 4.3
73= - HEC Paris France 32.3 -
75= 42 National Taiwan University Taiwan 31.5 -
75= 69 University of Wisconsin - Madison US 31.5 5.4
77 79 North Carolina University US 31.4 5.2
78= - Georgetown University US 31.3 5.1
78= 75= Rochester University US 31.3 8.1
80= - Université Paris Sorbonne - Paris IV France 31.2 -
80= 65 Trinity College, Dublin Ireland 31.2 -
80= - Pompeu Fabra University Spain 31.2 -
83= - Malaya University Malaysia 30.3 -
83= 70= Nanyang Technological University Singapore 30.3 -
85= 84= Nanjing University China 30.2 -
85= 74 University of California, San Diego US 30.2 8.5
87= - Keio University Japan 30.1 -
87= 58= Michigan State University US 30.1 5.6
89 66= University of Illinois US 30 5
90 92= Oslo University Norway 29.9 3.4
91 49 ETH Zurich Switzerland 29.7 -
92 62= Toulouse I France 29.6 -
93= 70= Shanghai Jiao Tong University China 28.9 -
93= 61 City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 28.9 -
93= - Mumbai University India 28.9 -
96= - Curtin University of Technology Australia 28.8 -
96= - Tasmania University Australia 28.8 -
96= 83 Hitotsubashi University Japan 28.8 -
99= - University of Newcastle Australia 28.7 -
99= 84= School of Oriental and African Studies UK 28.7 -
99= 91 Brown University US 28.7 6.6